The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-07-15


Az the meeting Of the nrst Assembly
district, United Labor party, in New York
on the night Of the 5th. Rev. DR.. Edward
McGiynn was elected : delegate 70 the
National convention u Syracuse on
August a
Gro TnonrsoS. broker, aged twenty
two years; max Eigmann. aged thirty-sis
and Alfred w. Renchen, aged twenty
Tour, committed suicide In New York on
the 9Th
shot DR.. Eugene b. North Al Peru, Ind,
on the 6,h. The murderer was at once ar.
rested and locked up. About midrigh, he
was taken from the Jail BY forty masked
men and hanged TO . cross-pIeco Of .
bridge spanning tbs Wabash river.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has written .
letter TO Mayor Francis Of st. Louis, In
which he says he has decided not 10 at-
tend the q. A. r. encampmcnt and set
ting forth At length his reasons therefor.
Az explosion OF gun cotton occurred on
the 9th in the powder mill ~ st. Medard
en- Jalie. eight miles northwest OF Bor-
deaux, France. Three persons were
blown 70 atoms and many others were in
iured.
ATTENDANTS McHugh and Cleary. who
Were lately placed in custody BY the ver-
dict Of a coroner's jury who accused them
Of beating an inmate Of ward Island (N
H.)Insane asylum named George Farris so
brutallv that tho man died, have been In
indicted for manslaughter by the grand
jury.
NJ RIsrlcs, the scrviau Premier, de-
mands that King Milan recall and rein
state the Metropolitan who was exiled to
Russia for his alleged connection with
The late revolutionary conspiracy. liking
Milan refuses the ministry will resign.
WORMS are destroying the cranberry
vines In the vicinity OF Berlin. Wis. tits
feared the vines will be permanently In
jured. One grower who expected 10
harvest 1k 900 bushels will not get any.
FIRE completely destroyed the stock OF
dry goods Of Cowhick 4 Whitcomb b. at
Cheyenne. Wy. r., on the 9th. valued at
el25, 900 and damaged the building $3.50
The stock was insured for 20. 600 and the
building FOR =. 500
Tue Treasury Department has decided
that an American vessel which arrived at
New York with cargo Of fish caught on
the coast OF Newfoundland Is exempt from
the continued supervision Of customs Of
dcers on the ground that she did not clear
from foreign port and because her cargo
was free from duty.
Tue fourth annual convention OF the |
United States vapor Stove Manufactur. |
srs' ASSOCIATION began at Cleveland. O., |
on the Oh The association represents
about twenty OF the leading Arms |
gasoline stoves in differ |
emit cities 81 the country.
MARK SHANNON. OF Painesville. o.. q
sculptor, wcll-known IN the principal /
titles Of the country, met with horri bic
ieath At Eric, Pa, on the 6,n. He was at
work on the Government building being
erected under the direction OF Supervis \
ng-Architect Bell A misstep precipitat-
d him from the roof to the ground His
BODY was crushed, and death resulted i'm
IT il reported from Idaho that a mum Der
4 Chinese mining camps along Snake
liver have been raided by either Indians /
y whites. Numerous mutilated bodies
4 Cinnamon have been found, four or
I've being discovered together few days
ince. II is thought TO be the work OF
nen who robbed the Chinese OF their gold
ust
DELEGATES from various portions OF
'alifornia closed three days secret ses-
ion at San Francisco on the 9th. after
plan for the organisation
4 the American party A mass meeting
vas held n the evening preceded by 0
treet parade and display or fireworks,
I which the platform Of the new party
vas read and adopted
A. ID. PARASr, the defauliing cashier Of
he Hochelaga bank OF Montreal, arrested
: Buffalo. n. r.. recently, was handed
YER 70 Chicago detectives on the 9th,
rho had requisition papers for the
risoner Parant will be prose cuted in
,hicago under an Illinois State law for
avlng stolen funds and securities OF tne
ank 10 his possession fhere